{"id":578,"date":"2007-02-25T23:49:25","date_gmt":"2007-02-26T03:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=578"},"modified":"2007-02-25T23:53:12","modified_gmt":"2007-02-26T03:53:12","slug":"congressional-immigration-action-center-from-numbersusacom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2007\/02\/25\/congressional-immigration-action-center-from-numbersusacom\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressional Immigration Action Center from NumbersUSA.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>PLEASE<\/em> ! If you are not yet taking advantage of the FREE fax from your computer service to Congress from NumbersUSA.com &#8211; fill out the short form and let Congress hear you. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.numbersusa.com\/actionbuffet\">Here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AMNESTY AGAIN BILL COMING THIS WEEK!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.numbersusa.com\/interests\/principlesforimmigrationreform.html\">NUMBERSUSA.com <\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Congressional Immigration Action Center<\/strong><br \/>\n                           Immigration Battle in Congress<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy Readying Action on Senate Amnesty Bill <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>(February 23, 2007) The Washington Times this week reported that Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) plans to introduce an amnesty bill as early as the week of March 6, that includes an easier citizenship path for illegal aliens and weaker enforcement provisions than were in S. 2611, the Senate-passed bill from last year. The bill could be ready for floor action in April if the Senate Judiciary Committee, where it will be first considered, finishes work on the bill quickly. <\/p>\n<p>Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Pat Leahy (D-VT) will begin hearings on the topic of \u201ccomprehensive immigration reform\u201d on February 28, although Kennedy\u2019s bill will not be marked up at that point. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez have been invited to discuss the President\u2019s \u201ccommitment to comprehensive immigration reform\u201d at the hearing.<br \/>\n(Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washtimes.com\/national\/20070222-121742-6247r.htm\">here to read the article<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Reportedly, Sen. Kennedy had help drafting the bill from Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and outside lobbyists including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Essential Worker Immigration Coalition (EWIC). According to Senate staffers contacted by the Times, these outside groups took a leading role in drafting provisions concerning worksite enforcement, according to Senate staffers questioned by the Times. The newspaper obtained internal emails that listed the following groups as other &#8220;key stakeholders&#8221; in workplace enforcement discussions: <\/p>\n<p>American Civil Liberties Union<br \/>\nNational Immigration Law Center<br \/>\nNational Council of La Raza<br \/>\nService Employees International Union (SEIU)<br \/>\nThe Times also noted that, other than Sen. McCain, Republican senators friendly to last year\u2019s &#8220;comprehensive&#8221; bill were excluded from initial discussions. However, some of those Senators \u2014 including Sam Brownback (R-KS), former Judiciary Committee Chair Arlen Specter (R-PA), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Chuck Hagel (R-NE) and Republican National Committee Chairman Mel Martinez \u2014 reportedly were briefed on the nearly-completed draft during the week of February 12.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho has been in and out of negotiations this year signals to Republicans that Mr. Kennedy will introduce a bill that more resembles the original McCain-Kennedy bill than the compromise that was ultimately approved last year,\u201d the Times reported.\n <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PLEASE ! If you are not yet taking advantage of the FREE fax from your computer service to Congress from NumbersUSA.com &#8211; fill out the short form and let Congress hear you. Here. AMNESTY AGAIN BILL COMING THIS WEEK! From NUMBERSUSA.com Congressional Immigration Action Center Immigration Battle in Congress Kennedy Readying Action on Senate Amnesty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}